Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-03-09
Straps and fafts.

that Senator Sherman IS an active candldate
for President and that he is planning to
to secure the nomination. His proposed
Southern tour and his speech to be delivered
at Nashville are but the beginning of an
aggressive campaign.
ZIoseph o. Brien, of Cleveland, says that
Ne once examined swallows nest, in
(which were two young birds. Around the
leg of one of them horsehair had been close
ly wound. Mr.. O'Brien removed the hair
and found that the leg had been broken:
He thinks that this was a genuine case of
bird surgery.
- Willie Lamb, thirteen-year old Ken
tucky boy, found that big rock had fallen
Scottsburg. He waited an hour and then
tagged and stopped coming passenger
train. The passengers made up purse for
him. 81 didn't expect nothing" said
Willie, 81 just didn't like to see the train
busted up"
<Six miles from Mackinaw, ILL.,, is bit
IF ground about eighty feet square that is
ALWAYS so warm that snow melts as soon as
it tails upon it. 1t is said that when the
earth there is disturbed it flashes like burn
ing powder, and that peculiar gas comes
up from the ground, which so far has shat
tered every vessel in which an effort has
has been made to confine it.
- Senator Joe Brown, of Georia, has just
sold his two blast furnaces, one of which
is in Chattanooga and the other at Rising
Fawn, twenty miles distant, and the Dade
Mines, to syndicate Of Georgia capitalists
for, s., ,0O0, 900. The syndicate is known as
the Barlow Coal, Iron and Land Company,
which recently purchased $4,000 acres OF
land near Gainesville, Georgia.
- Indianola, Texas, which was prosper
L., e IL {hn iyYyrc
of the Western Texas and Pacific Railroad, is
tobe abandoned. It has been scourged by
cyclone, flood and fire and the railroad
company having removed its depot to Port
L.avacsa, ten miles north, the court house,
business houses and the residences of Indi-
anola are being torn down for removal.
The town will soon be entirely deserted.
{ = Some idea of the manner in which the
Forty-ninth Congress wound up its work
may be found in the declaration of mem
{ ber of long experience, that the record re-
vealed the fact that one quarter OF the legls-
Y lation Of the session had been enacted in the
last few legislative days. AN enrolling
clerk of twelve years. experience, said that
never in that length of tine had he wit
messed the haste exhibited in the last tWen-
ty-four hours of the Congress which has just
expired.
- Gen. J. J. Finley, of Ocala, Fla, has
been appointed by Governor Perry United
States Senator to succeed the Hon. Charles
w. Jones, whose term expired on March 4.
General Finley is a lawyer by profession.
!, served with distinction in the Confederate
army, has been member of the Supreme
Court of Florida, and was three times
candidate for Congress, being elected once
and defeated twice by Colonel Bisbee, Re-
publican.
= One-quarter of the live stock of the
United States is owned and fed in the South.
The South has $500, ,OOO, 900 invested in milch
cows, oxen, other cattle, sheep, hogs, horses
and mules. The South owns one-third of
the mich cows, oxen, other cattle and hogs
of the country, or fully her proportion &C.
cording to population. One-quarter of the
sheep of the country are kept in the South,
when ten years ago the proportion was only
one-seventh. The negroes own very little
live stock.
The death roll of the last Congress was
an extraordinary one, comprising the unpre-
cedented number of thirteen names in the
I House and Senate. Among these are Vice
President Hendricks, president Of the Sen
ate. Senators Miller, of California, Pike, of
New Hampshire, Logan Of Illinois Illinois ana s
Representatives Hahn, Of Louisiana, Ar
not, Beach and Dowdney, If New York,
Price, of Wisconsin, Cole, of Maryland,
Ellwood, of Illinois, Duncan, of Pennsylya-
pia, and Rankin, of Wisconsin.
fA Winona dispatch of Thursday says:
The superintendent of the Winona and st.
Peter Railroad states that between Mankato
and Tracy, the snow drifts are in many
cases six feet above the telegraph poles, and
that the linemen have had to splice scant-
lings to the tops of the poles to get the
wires up where they could be used. he
says many of the drifts are twenty-five feet
deep and packed so hard that the company
dares not attempt to send a snow ploW
through them. One thousand men are now
Mt work shoveling snow between Mankato
and Tracy, and the line will not be cleared
for several DAYS.
The bill for the relief of Confederate sol
diers and their wives, which has passed both
houses of the Alabama Legislature, con-
tains the following provisions: l. Appro--
PIRATES $4,000. 2. includes all disabled
soldiers now citizens of Alabama; also
widows of soldiers who died during the
of the war, and who have never married.
8. Does not apply to soldiers and widows
who are worth 81 900 or more. ). Fifteen
hundred dollars to be paid blind soldiers
who lost their sight during the war.
ZJoe Blackburn, Senator from Kentucky,
Mas once second in duel, and First Assist
lant Postmaster General Stevenson was the
other second. Stevenson placed his man
with his back to the sun. Blackburn saw
the disadvantage Of his principal and be-
gan to do talk for some other arrange
ment. He wenti into the history ofduelling,
citing cases and giving statistics, explained
the courtesy of the code and argued every
point of honor with such force and contin-
uance that when they finally got ready to
fight the sun had gone down and it was so
dark that the men couldn't see each other
at ten PAGES. The duel didn't come Oft.
= The certificate of incorporation of the
New York and Southern Telegraph Co.,
has been filed. 1t states that its capital is
one million, divided into shares Of 800
each, with the privilege of increasing the
stock to five millions. The company's
wires are to run from New York to Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, Washington. Rich
mond, Charleston, Savannah and New Or
leans and to all intermediate points. The
following is a list of the officers: President,
John S. Wise, of Richmond, Va; Vice
President, James B. Pace of Richmond;
Treasurer, John T. Moore, of New York.
The test of new telephone was made
in the office of Mr.. George Westinghouse,
in Pittsburg, by Mr.. Lowth, the inventor.
The instrument may not inappropriately
be termed dumb telephone, as it has no
transmitter, properly speaking, the conver-
sation being carried on by means OF the
receiver alone. Attached to the receiving
tube, which is shaped somewhat different
from those now in use, is single wire, to
the end of which is a sensitive little appll-